Lisa Wedeen
Occupation	Professor of Political Science
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Genre	non-fiction

Lisa Wedeen is Professor ofPolitical Science and the College and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at theUniversity of Chicago. In 1995, Wedeen received her Ph.D. in political science at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.^[1] Her former advisor wasHanna Pitkin.^[2] She has taught courses on nationalism, identity formation, power and resistance, and citizenship. Her work on the Middle East includesAmbiguities of Domination, an ethnographic study of the culture of thespectacle inSyria underHafez al-Assad.^[3] In 2019, she published the bookAuthoritarian Apprehensions, in which she tested the applicability of her earlier conclusions to the regime of Hafez al-Assad's son and successor,Bashar al-Assad.^[4]

• "Acting 'As If': Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria" (1998)
• Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
• Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (2019)
• "Concepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy" inProblems and Methods in the Study of Politics (2004)
• "Conceptualizing 'Culture': Possibilities For Political Science" InAPSR (2002)
• "Ethnography as an Interpretive Enterprise" (2009)
• "Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria" (2013)
• Peripheral Visions: Politics, Power, and Performance in Yemen (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
• "Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science" (2010)
• "Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen" inComparative Studies in Society and History (2003)

• Webpage on University of Chicago website
• Article in Vol 27 No. 18 ofThe University of Chicago Chronicle

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